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In 1431, a teenage peasant girl stood before a powerful court of bishops and theologians in Rouen. She was accused of heresy. Her crime was claiming that God had spoken to her. Joan of Arc had already changed the course of the Hundred Years' War. Leading French forces to victory at Orléans and escorting Charles VII to his coronation at Reims, she became one of the most extraordinary figures in European history. But her enemies needed more than her capture. They needed to destroy the meaning of her mission. The trial that followed was one of the most dramatic courtroom confrontations of the Middle Ages. For months Joan faced relentless questioning about her visions, her faith, and her defiance of authority. The court sought to prove she was a dangerous visionary whose claims threatened both Church and crown. What happened inside that courtroom still raises difficult questions today. Who has the authority to judge a claim of divine inspiration? How far can political power shape religious justice? And what happens when conscience refuses to yield? The Trial of Joan of Arc reconstructs the interrogations, the charges, and the final verdict that sent a nineteen-year-old woman to the stake in Rouen. Twenty-five years later the Church overturned the verdict. Nearly five centuries later she was declared a saint. History still debates the meaning of her trial.

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